It is my understanding that you are considering withholding your support from Alabama Attorney General William Pryor because of his views on abortion.

I think we have reached our limit regarding the anti-Catholic bigotry so evident among pro-abortion senators, including that shown by pragmatically atheistic "Catholic" pro-abortion senators. The idea that you would cause a Catholic such as Mr. Pryor to be banned from the federal judiciary because he is a practicing Catholic, when you previously voted to confirm self-professed pedophile advocate Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who expressly supports lowering the age of sexual consent to the age of twelve, to Justice of the Supreme Court, is utterly repugnant.

The religious litmus-tests consistently being applied to orthodox Christians must stop if we are to maintain any semblance of the free republic bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers.

It is axiomatic that no man operates but from a moral framework. In the last one hundred years those who have attained governmental power as atheists, professed or pragmatic, have yielded nothing but the documented slaughter of an estimated 187 million souls. Each of these socialist governments, both communist and national socialist, embraced the evil of abortion. The moral framework from which abortion springs is, as Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian noted in his defense of Judaism, Against Apion, an evil common to the brutal pagans of his age. It is in fact, common to every brutal culture, a fact that has apparently been lost to you and the bigoted Charles Schumer, your ferociously anti-Catholic colleague.

We reject the notion that the morality of the Catholic Faith, the morality hailed by David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir as the activating spirit that saved upwards to 860,000 Jews from the Nazis, is defective.

We reject the notion that the Catholic morality that moved Albert Einstein to write in 1940 that, in face of the Nazi barbarism, "only the Church remained standing to halt the progress of Hitler's campaigns to do away with truth.in the past I never felt any interest for the Church, but now I feel great love and admiration for her, as the Church was the only one with the courage and tenacity to support intellectual truth and moral freedom. I must admit that what I once despised, I now praise unconditionally." is defective.

I have publicly stated previously to others and say it again: "We reject the notion that Christian morality is defective and a threat to our nation. We will not have our moral views driven from the public square by pragmatic atheists and those who are so profoundly deluded by them. We are not obliged to "check" our moral weapons at the doors to government so that the extreme amoralists may wield theirs with impunity."

The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

This letter is self-defeating... it would have been fine if they had stuck to their point, i.e., that Specter is imposing what amounts to a illegal religious test on a nominee. But the authors decided they'd lecture Specter too, which means that the whole thing will be promptly ignored.

Maybe the point is not so much to convince Specter of the error of his ways as much as to inform the voters of his district of his outrageous litmus test, during an election where Specter is vulnerable to the education of his constituency as to just how liberal he really is.

--Dr. Brian Kopp,

Vice President, Catholic Family Association of America,

Co-author of above press release ;-)

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posted on 07/21/2003 2:11:45 PM PDT
by Polycarp
(Life's not like a box o choclates...it's like eatin jalapenos. What ya do now might burn ya tomorrow)

There is no way that Specter, a liberal Jew, will support a professed pro-life Catholic for an important court appointment. He is no different than Schumer or Levin in that regard, and it is about time that Republicans in Pennsylvania woke up to that.

There is a NY Times editorial headlined Extremist Judicial Nominee, all about Pryor, uses words like "outsdie of mainstream" "ideologue" "right wing"...It says the Judiciary comm could vote as ealy as today (the horrors!) and it practically begs Specter to vote against him.

An Extremist Judicial Nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote as early as today on the nomination of the Alabama attorney general, William Pryor, to a federal appeals court judgeship. Mr. Pryor is among the most extreme of the Bush administration's far-right judicial nominees. If he is confirmed, his rulings on civil rights, abortion, gay rights and the separation of church and state would probably do substantial harm to the rights of all Americans. Senators from both parties should oppose his confirmation.

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